Toward integrating systems engineering with software engineering through Object-Process Programming

Jbara, Ahmad; Bibliowicz, Arieh; Wengrowicz, Niva; Levi, Natali; Dori, Dov

doi:10.1007/s41870-020-00488-8

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“…Additionally, ref. [38] introduced a novel visual programming language that integrates the principles of conceptual modeling language and methodology, offering a unified diagram type with a universal ontology and built-in refinement abstraction mechanisms. On the other hand, ref.…”

Section: Business Process Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging Spatio-Temporal Objects and Business Processes: Land Reform Process Case Study

Zaki,

Claramunt,

Nasser

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

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Although significant progress has been achieved in the development of spatio-temporal models that capture real-world phenomena, more interaction between phenomenon-based and business-based modeling approaches is still required. This represents a much-needed step forward in balancing the management and scientific aspects of many urban applications. The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated modeling framework that combines MADS (Modeling of Application Data with Spatio-temporal Features), a specific conceptual spatiotemporal model that successfully represents geographical data, with BPMN (Business Process Model Notation), which models and determines how business processes interact with geographic objects. The integration of MADS and BPMN guarantees clarity, extensibility, and autonomy between data and management operations, as it portrays spatio-temporal abstractions on a conceptual level. This integration offers a unique opportunity to accurately represent, understand, and explain the rationale behind the changes occurring in space and time. The approach has been implemented within a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database management system. A case study implementation shows the practical applicability and potential of this modeling approach.

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Section: Business Process Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging Spatio-Temporal Objects and Business Processes: Land Reform Process Case Study

Zaki,

Claramunt,

Nasser

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

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“…This division of references is inspired by the division into fact and rule spaces found in ontologies. In practice, of all these relationships, the algorithmic transitions are not preferred as they are not fully declarative and thus arguably less usable [15], [37].…”

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“…Another area for future work is the analysis of RLS-DL usability as a low-code language. Generally, it can be expected that better usability is assured through declarative characteristics of the language (see appropriate comparative analyses [15], [37]). This is in line with our initial studies presented in the previous section.…”

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Beyond Low-Code Development: Marrying Requirements Models and Knowledge Representations

Rybiński¹,

Śmiałek²

2022

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Typical Low-Code Development platforms enable model-driven generation of web applications from high-level visual notations. They normally express the UI and the application logic, which allows generating the frontend and basic CRUD operations. However, more complex domain logic (data processing) operations still necessitate the use of traditional programming. This paper presents a visual language, called RSL-DL, to represent domain knowledge with complex domain rules aligned with requirements models. The language synthesises and extends approaches found in knowledge representation (ontologies) and software modelling language engineering. Its purpose is to enable a fully automatic generation of domain logic code by reasoning over and reusing domain knowledge. The language's abstract syntax is defined using a meta-model expressed in MOF. Its semantics is expressed with several translational rules that map RSL-DL models onto typical programming language constructs. The rules are explained informally in natural language and formalised using a graphical transformation notation. It is also supported by introducing an inference engine that enables processing queries to domain models and selecting appropriate invocations to generated code. The presented language was implemented by building a dedicated model editor and transformation engine. It was also initially validated through usability studies.Based on these results, we conclude that declarative knowledge representations can be successfully used to produce imperative back-end code with non-trivial logic. 926 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FEDCSIS. SOFIA, BULGARIA, 2022TABLE I RESULTS OF THE OPERABILITY STUDY Participant Task RSL-DL time Java time Author No.

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“…The project managers involved in such software projects still know little about what the development team members need to do on a day-to-day basis and how to monitor them and address their concerns. Any ad-hoc operations or processes that focus only on the completion and the rapid delivery of products will trigger the malfunctioning of the software product, thereby posing business and technical risks to the project at a later stage (Jbara et al, 2020). Hence, during any such worldwide crisis, the IT industry is expected to be guided by a model different from the usually practiced process model to quickly learn to list out the tasks for their on-going software development projects and for responding to their previously completed projects with respect to some swift updation and release for use by customers, in no time.…”

Section: The Challenges Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This new situation has forced every industry to adjust its limited resources to carry out its business processes, and doing so requires additional effort and time. Systems engineering (SE) and software engineering (SwE) are therefore interdependent, tightly coupled, and complementary activities that must be carefully aligned and coordinated throughout the system development process (Gralha et al, 2018;Jbara et al 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic has come as a wake-up call for project managers to rethink the development of a software product by a team involving developers, business analysts, and solution architects.…”

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Is It Time to Rethink Our Software Development Practices?

Parthasarathy¹,

Chandrakumar²

2021

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

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Covid-19 has proliferated across the nations with increasing number of cases each day. Thus, IT companies are now forced to operate from remote places with limited IT resources. However, these companies across the globe are on continuous touch with their software development and maintenance teams to ensure that they are productive and are able to deliver their services on the projects on time. We study the challenges faced by the IT companies at this juncture and the need for a different software development approach to complete the projects successfully even during such crisis. In this context, when the IT industries are making attempts to complete their on-going software projects and also to attend to some critical up-gradation in their previously delivered products, the challenges faced by them due to acute shortage of IT resources and transforming the working model from physical setup to remote platform needs to be studied. This calls for studying the existing software development models and practices and defining an alternate one that would suit the present IT scenario.

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Toward integrating systems engineering with software engineering through Object-Process Programming

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Merging Spatio-Temporal Objects and Business Processes: Land Reform Process Case Study

Merging Spatio-Temporal Objects and Business Processes: Land Reform Process Case Study

Beyond Low-Code Development: Marrying Requirements Models and Knowledge Representations

Is It Time to Rethink Our Software Development Practices?

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